First attempt at writing on here I scrapped was summary of the various huge mods for Star Wars Empire at War, a few of which were responsible for maintaining my love of the setting post-Disney acquisition
Star wars was originally a very inspiring hero's journey story for young boys. It had adventure, hetero romance and a bit of spirituality in there, vage enough to at least get blys to consider the metaphysical. The original star wars poster even looks like a Conan the Barbarian cover. It sucks that is so tarnished retroactively by later subversion. In essence there was nothing wrong with it.
I personally am an anime fan but i don't publicly endorse anime because what i like is 80s and 90s stuff that was cool and awesome and not post 2007- moeshit slice of life tranime. I am more of a kawajiri and Mamoru Oshii guy than a Miyazaki guy. ( But still resent Miyazaki films being taken over by soys because despite his cringy male feminist leanings he is still a virtuos man that would despise those kind of fans). Japan often does western fiction better than westerners and there's even surprising redpills (like Angel cop lol) but for someone on the outside Anime is not the very edgy high fantasy and sci fi stuff i grew up with. When you say you like anime now people just think you cum on anime pillows of Megumim and dance to little girls singing about being kawaii.
Have you read the Lensman stories? They started the grounded Sci-Fi stories. Kinda like a Green Lantern Corps but actually doing good and making hard decisions.
No. I didn't read much fiction as a kid aside from LoTR, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Star Wars. Unironically, I usually preferred to read encyclopedia style books and sometimes even straight up textbooks.
My parents bought encyclopedias for kids that we'd read when the power went out or had nothing else to do, so I can relate to that. I spent most of my early years reading Magic Treehouse and other adventure novels. Never got around to reading LoTR, though I did finish Crime and Punishment because of Lionel's recommendation a few years ago.
I started LoTR in 5th grade iirc. Not sure how much I truly appreciated, because I can distinctly remember thinking how boring the sections where they just talked about the world. Maybe I'll read it again soon, since that is a very stupid takeaway. But yeah, I had a LOT of factbooks. I had some Ripley's but I mostly liked to read stuff about animals and space.
Ehhh he is responsible for a lot of the pozzed parts of Star Wars. Really, the whole point of this post is that Star Wars is not a homogenous franchise and that there are many kernels of red-pill in the books and other non-mainstream stuff.
Zahn has always done the exact opposite? His depictions of the Empire are always the most generous. His Legends book "Allegiance" refutes the idea of Stormtroopers sucking, and his Canon Thrawn books are pretty much the only source the Empire is competent in Star Wars. He also invented Battle Meditation in order to justify why the Empire lost at Endor; saying that when Palpatine died it broke the Battle Meditation and sent the Empire's forces into chaos. He writes about this in the margins if the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Heir to the Empire."
Zahn is a hardcore military sci-fi writer, even outside of Star Wars. His work is usually the most realistic in SW.
I never read the thrawn trilogy but all the lore channels I watch constantly spout that thrawn is the only guy that could create competent fleet comps out of imperial ships and understood the crazy logistical costs of ISDs and thus when he was on the backfoot refrained from using them, using effeminate ships instead like carraks and victories.
Star Wars YouTube is about as reliable as History YouTube. Thrawn is undeniably the best strategist in the Empire (and really Star Wars in general) but he isn't the only good on. Tarkin was an excellent strategist (moreso in Canon actually), Veers was one of the best ground force commanders in the entire Empire, maybe THE best, Yularen was pretty good, etc.
Also Thrawn used Carracks because he found hundreds of them for free when he was able to locate the (previously) missing Katana Fleet. He still used ISDs some but they were for more delicate operations rather than general use.
Im gonna have to read it myself I guess. I could’ve sworn, from what I most recently remember, there was a direct quote about how shitily built quasar carriers were in a video.
Trver wqrds have never been spvken
First attempt at writing on here I scrapped was summary of the various huge mods for Star Wars Empire at War, a few of which were responsible for maintaining my love of the setting post-Disney acquisition
I always thought scrollspost referred to the fact that they were always too long and you’d have to scroll on ifunny to read the whole thing
Is this Riley Davis
Yuh I felt like having my full real name was a little too on the nose, even if my last name is super common.
It’s ok, I have the emails of hundreds of subscribers that are literally their full names
I have figured out many a person's middle name by looking at the email address. Year of birth too.
Lol, that does happen
I keep my email that's my real name for professional use, this is my shitposting email I made back in 2014/15
I’m literally one of them btw
I was kind of expecting a textpost but this is welcome too
Yeah I'll do one eventually but idk when I'll be able to
I love the EU!!!!
I have an autographed Timothy Zahn book
That's awesome
Star wars was originally a very inspiring hero's journey story for young boys. It had adventure, hetero romance and a bit of spirituality in there, vage enough to at least get blys to consider the metaphysical. The original star wars poster even looks like a Conan the Barbarian cover. It sucks that is so tarnished retroactively by later subversion. In essence there was nothing wrong with it.
I personally am an anime fan but i don't publicly endorse anime because what i like is 80s and 90s stuff that was cool and awesome and not post 2007- moeshit slice of life tranime. I am more of a kawajiri and Mamoru Oshii guy than a Miyazaki guy. ( But still resent Miyazaki films being taken over by soys because despite his cringy male feminist leanings he is still a virtuos man that would despise those kind of fans). Japan often does western fiction better than westerners and there's even surprising redpills (like Angel cop lol) but for someone on the outside Anime is not the very edgy high fantasy and sci fi stuff i grew up with. When you say you like anime now people just think you cum on anime pillows of Megumim and dance to little girls singing about being kawaii.
Have you read the Lensman stories? They started the grounded Sci-Fi stories. Kinda like a Green Lantern Corps but actually doing good and making hard decisions.
No. I didn't read much fiction as a kid aside from LoTR, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Star Wars. Unironically, I usually preferred to read encyclopedia style books and sometimes even straight up textbooks.
My parents bought encyclopedias for kids that we'd read when the power went out or had nothing else to do, so I can relate to that. I spent most of my early years reading Magic Treehouse and other adventure novels. Never got around to reading LoTR, though I did finish Crime and Punishment because of Lionel's recommendation a few years ago.
I started LoTR in 5th grade iirc. Not sure how much I truly appreciated, because I can distinctly remember thinking how boring the sections where they just talked about the world. Maybe I'll read it again soon, since that is a very stupid takeaway. But yeah, I had a LOT of factbooks. I had some Ripley's but I mostly liked to read stuff about animals and space.
George Lucas was always right
Ehhh he is responsible for a lot of the pozzed parts of Star Wars. Really, the whole point of this post is that Star Wars is not a homogenous franchise and that there are many kernels of red-pill in the books and other non-mainstream stuff.
I defend him
Didn’t zahn basically canonize that the empire was incredibly logistically retarded just to jerk of thrawn tho?
Like there was no indication of that before hand besides midwits on forums being like “storm troopers and ties suck heu heu heu”
Zahn has always done the exact opposite? His depictions of the Empire are always the most generous. His Legends book "Allegiance" refutes the idea of Stormtroopers sucking, and his Canon Thrawn books are pretty much the only source the Empire is competent in Star Wars. He also invented Battle Meditation in order to justify why the Empire lost at Endor; saying that when Palpatine died it broke the Battle Meditation and sent the Empire's forces into chaos. He writes about this in the margins if the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Heir to the Empire."
Zahn is a hardcore military sci-fi writer, even outside of Star Wars. His work is usually the most realistic in SW.
I never read the thrawn trilogy but all the lore channels I watch constantly spout that thrawn is the only guy that could create competent fleet comps out of imperial ships and understood the crazy logistical costs of ISDs and thus when he was on the backfoot refrained from using them, using effeminate ships instead like carraks and victories.
Star Wars YouTube is about as reliable as History YouTube. Thrawn is undeniably the best strategist in the Empire (and really Star Wars in general) but he isn't the only good on. Tarkin was an excellent strategist (moreso in Canon actually), Veers was one of the best ground force commanders in the entire Empire, maybe THE best, Yularen was pretty good, etc.
Also Thrawn used Carracks because he found hundreds of them for free when he was able to locate the (previously) missing Katana Fleet. He still used ISDs some but they were for more delicate operations rather than general use.
And my understanding is that this lore originated from these books.
Somewhat. A lot of it is just poor interpretation on the YouTuber's end (see previous comment).
Im gonna have to read it myself I guess. I could’ve sworn, from what I most recently remember, there was a direct quote about how shitily built quasar carriers were in a video.